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This is the Company Blog of XLCubed Ltd. XLCubed Ltd provides software to assist Business End Users to get the maximum out of business information when using the worlds most prevalent Business Analysis Tool – Microsoft Excel. Our mission is to connect Business Users to data through using Industry standard OLAP databases such that an average Excel user can do what they want which we do through our XLCubed products. and to help those users visualize information. Through the acquisition of Bonavista Systems we bought into the XLCubed product line the innovative use of charting techniques and the patent pending “In Cell” charting technology MicroCharts.

We recognized that millions (tens of millions J) of end users are pure Excel users with little or no access to databases of any shape or size and we determined that to continuing to support those customers through “Bonavista Systems” makes a lot of sense. To that end improvements in data vizualization driven by XLCubed customers will find its way into BonaVista products and visa versa. The same data visualisation design techniques and principles that work for the largest multi-national in the world (yes, they are an XLCubed customer) will work for any business and whilst the scale’s may be different the problems are in fact similar.

Because of these similarities we decided to launch a combined blog and you will see blog entries which refer to the different brands we operate

XLCubed - Reporting, Analytics and Dashboards for data connected solutions

BonaVista Systems – Innovative Data Vizualization products for Excel.

The people who work and run our organization are passionate about spreadsheet reporting and have hundreds of man years of experience in this field. Yes, some of us really are that old and cut our teeth on Lotus 123. We also recognize it’s not just about software products, its about how you use them and why some things work and some don’t. Some of the dashboards that are being produced just in Excel using MicroCharts by pure MicroChart customers are truly works of business art and we hope to share some of those experiences going forward.

The reason why we established this blog is to try and explain some of the do’s and do not’s in our field of expertise and we hope that you find it useful. We also hope to show people that scary things like OLAP and databases aren’t that scary really and that it doesn’t have to cost a fortune to take advantage of the sort of technology that big companies are using. All in all our goal is to be informative and to present our opinions (not facts) .. you may find we don’t always agree with each other which could lead to some entertaining threads.

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